Which of the following statements concerning Byzantine military organization is most accurate?
a. the Byzantine Empire recruited troops within the empire by granting heritable land in return for military service
b. no outsiders were ever recruited by the Byzantine military but there was wide usage of eunuchs
c. the Byzantine Empire emulated the later Arabic empires by making use of slave armies as a basis for the military force
d. Byzantine soldiers were recruited almost exclusively from people outside the empire
e. military command within the Byzantine Empire remained in the hands of the traditional aristocracy who lived in Constantinople
Answer: A